88Z AI, 17 July — Multimodal AGI firm Prana Labs has closed a seed round of nearly ten million US dollars, with investment from Yuan Sheng Capital, XVC, Creekstone, and 37 Interactive Entertainment. The company focuses on multimodal foundation models, aiming to build an interactive world generation system with physical constraints to train next-generation general AI through trial and error in virtual environments.
At a glance
- Prana Labs secures nearly $10 million seed investment from Yuan Sheng Capital and others
- Focuses on building interactive world generation systems with physical constraints to train general AI

The update
Prana Labs has successfully completed its seed funding round, raising nearly ten million US dollars. The investment was jointly led by Yuan Sheng Capital, XVC, Creekstone, and 37 Interactive Entertainment. Positioned as a multimodal foundation model company, Prana Labs focuses on building a scalable world generation system. This system supports interactive operations while strictly adhering to physical constraints. Through this technical architecture, artificial intelligence can perform autonomous actions and trial-and-error processes in virtual environments, thereby deeply learning and mastering physical laws. This training approach aims to lay the foundation for the development of next-generation general intelligence, enhancing AI's understanding and adaptability in complex settings. The capital injection will accelerate its R&D progress in the field of multimodal general intelligence.
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